THE  NEW  BUILDING 

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Department  of  Law 

University  of  Pennsylvania 


COPE  & STEWARDSON 

ARCHITECTS 


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PERSPECTIVE  VIEW 


The  new  building  for  the  Law  Department  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania  is  now  started  and  will  be  ready  for  occupancy 
about  January  1st,  1900.  It  will  occupy  the  lot,  150  feet  by  220 
feet,  at  the  South-west  Corner  of  Thirty-fourth  and  Chestnut  Streets, 
extending  from  Chestnut  Street  to  Sansom  Street.  The  main  entrance 
will  be  on  Thirty-fourth  Street,  and  a minor  entrance  on  Sansom 
Street. 

The  construction  will  he  fire-proof  and  very  little  wood  will 
be  used  in  the  finishing — even  the  floors  will  be  mosaic  or  cement 
covered  with  linoleum. 

The  walls  of  the  exterior  will  be  of  a dark  dull  red  brick  and 
Indiana  limestone,  and  the  roof  of  green  slate. 

In  the  basement  at  the  south  end,  and  flanking  the  Sansom 
Street  entrance,  will  be  a number  of  club  and  quiz  rooms,  and  a 
large  room  for  bicycles. 


IN  THE  HALLWAY 


On  the  ground  floor  will  be  the  offices  of  the  Dean,  the  Coat  Room,  Lecture  Rooms,  and  a Practice 
Court  anti  Prothonotary’s  Office.  The  Lecture  Rooms,  seven  in  number,  will  vary  in  size  from  a seating 
capacity  of  50  to  one  of  200.  These  rooms  surround  the  large  central  hallway,  which  is  entered  at  the 
south  end  by  a stairway  leading  up  from  the  basement  entrance  hall,  and  also  directly  by  the  main  entrance 
on  Thirty-fourth  Street.  Opposite  the  main  entrance  is  the  stair  hall,  with  the  grand  staircase  of  marble, 
leading  to  the  second  or  Library  floor.  Half-way  up  the  stair,  opening  from  the  landing,  w'ill  be  the 
students’  toilet  rooms. 

The  Library,  or  second  floor,  is  devoted  exclusively  to  the  Stack  and  Reading  Room,  with  small  Professors’ 
Rooms  adjoining.  The  Stack  Room  occupies  the  centre  or  heart  of  the  building  immediately  opposite  the 
staircase,  and  at  the  north  and  south  ends  are  the  two  great  Reading  Rooms,  seating  250  men  each  In  front 
of  the  Stack  on  the  east  is  the  Graduate  or  Advanced  Reading  Room,  Hanked  by  the  Professors’  Rooms  in 
two  stories.  The  Library  is  arranged  so  that  the  books  shall  be  in  the  middle  of  the  building,  while  the 
readers  will  occupy  the  surrounding  rooms  near  the  light.  The  books  are  thus  accessible  to  the  greatest 
number  of  readers,  and  can  be  distributed  and  collected  with  the  least  delay  and  contusion.  Every  student  will 
have  his  own  desk,  with  its  electric  reading  light  and  bell-call  and  a closet  for  books  or  personal  effects. 
The  desks  are  so  arranged  that  light  from  the  windows  will  tall  behind  and  at  the  side  of  the  student,  so 
that  no  reader  will  face  the  light.  The  Book  Stack  will  be  lighted  mainly  from  the  top. 

On  the  Library  floor  there  will  be  two  Conversation  Rooms  for  the  use  of  the  students  when  not  at  work. 

The  architecture  of  the  building  is  in  the  style  of  the  English  Classic,  of  the  beginning  of  the  XVIII 
Century,  or  the  Reign  of  William  and  Mary. 


SOUTH  READING  ROOM 


First  Floor  Plan 


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